Hi,

I am currently in a bit of a pickle.

I use Inventor 2014 at work and that is fine. However, when I am in college, any college work I do at work cannot be opened because the college use Inventor 2011.

Does anybody know how I may be able to back save or even save the part & assemblies in a way which is compatible with both versions.

I understand that there is a part tree for each assembly but I'm not particularly bothered if I have to re-assign all of the separate parts every time I open the assembly.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks.

Hi John Connor,

I think that may be the problem. However, I posted this also on the Autodesk website forum and there has been a possible untested solution put up where I can save all .ipt & .iam documents as .stp files which may allow the older version to load up the assembly mainly but without the feature tree.

Something which I can always re-configure in the long run but as long as it saves me doing the components again is the main thing. The assembly isn't exactly the end of the world.

I mainly posted because there could have been a possibility where someone found a loop hole in the process which allowed it but that's not the case up to now.

Hi All,

Just to let you know it sort of worked in the end.

I saved the separate parts as STEP files and then I managed to open up the 'old versions' and then 'save copy as' to update the drawing to 2011 format.

I lost the assembly but I was only part way through that anyway as it is a working progress so that never took too long to re-do.

Thank you everybody for your help and advice.

Well as I said the assembly I a working progress anyway so I would have most probably had to change it in the near future anyway.

It was however quite a pain in the a**e way to go about it to be honest. The more annoying thing is that I never actually modified the parts in any way on 2014 so its not as if there was a process which wasn't supported on 2011. I literally opened the parts up in 2014 to look at something and by routine, saved as I closed.

Well resolved now anyway, thank you again for the advice.